Exploratory Workshop Scheme
Science Review Group for the Social Sciences
ESF Exploratory Workshop on
Making Europe:
The Social Sciences and the
Production of European Integration
Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-5 February 2013
Convened by:
Assistant Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen and
Assistant Professor Kristoffer Kropp 
 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
DK
 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK
Co-sponsored by
The European Science Foundation (ESF) was established in 1974 to
provide a common platform for its Member Organisations to advance
European research collaboration and explore new directions for
research. Currently it is an independent organisation, owned by 67
Member Organisations, which are research funding organisations,
research performing organisations and academies from 29 countries.
ESF is in a period of transition; the ESF Member Organisations (MO’s) have
indicated that they would like to wind down certain ESF activities, such as
EUROCORES, RNP’s, ECRP’s and Forward Looks by the end of 2015, but ESF will
continue to honour its existing commitments until the projects are finalised.
In 2013 the only research instrument that will have a call for proposals is the
Exploratory Workshops. The focus of the Exploratory Workshops scheme is on
workshops aiming to explore an emerging and/or innovative field of research or
research infrastructure, also of interdisciplinary character. Workshops are expected
to open up new directions in research or new domains. It is expected that a workshop
shall conclude with plans for follow-up research activities and/or collaborative actions
or other specific outputs at international level.
ESF is also currently exploring new areas where we could serve the science
community. Services we have identified that would leverage our expertise and
experience and provide added-value to the science community are: peer review,
evaluation, research conferences and career tracking.
Please check our website (www.esf.org) for regular updates regarding ESF and its
future developments.
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ESF Exploratory Workshops:
Nicolas Walter
Senior Science Officer in charge of Peer Review
Valerie Allspach-Kiechel
Senior Administrator
Tel:
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Isabelle May
Senior Administrator
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ESF Exploratory Workshop:
Making Europe: The Social Sciences and the Production
of European Integration
Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-6 February 2013
Convenor:
Assistant Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen
RAN@ifs.ku.dk
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Oester Farimagsgade 5
1353 Copenhagen
Denmark
Co-convenor:
Assistant Professor Kristoffer Kropp
kkr@soc.ku.dk
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Oester Farimagsgade 5
1353 Copenhagen
Denmark
Main objectives of the workshop:
This exploratory workshop aims at initiating new research in the intersection of sociology of
knowledge and political sociology of European integration. The workshop addresses the important
but understudied question of how social scientific knowledge is entangled in the political, economic
and cultural process of European integration. The workshop aims at a systematic conceptualization
of the co-production of social scientific knowledge and the development of the European Union.
The participants explore the potentials for a systematic mapping of the relation between social
scientific knowledge and particular aspects of the European integration process. The workshop is
funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Faculty of Social Sciences, University
of Copenhagen
Research questions
This workshop – and subsequent interdisciplinary research project – investigates the entanglement
between social scientific knowledge and European integration. It raises the following questions:
1.
2.
3.
How is Europe made?
How have particular ideas and social scientific enquiries on Europe shaped political, economic
and cultural European integration since World War II?
How do particular practices of European integration inform the social science’s choice of
theories, methods and research questions?
Notwithstanding the general agreement that the social sciences play an important role in shaping
ideas and practices of European integration, the process remains understudied. With this research
project, we initiate a systematic conceptualization of the entanglement, providing a first step
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Making Europe: The Social Sciences and the Production
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Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-6 February 2013
towards an analysis of the interplay between social science research and practices of European
integration, understood broadly as a political, legal, economic, social, cultural and philosophical
phenomenon. The point of departure for this project is the observation that the European Union –
on the one hand – contributes to the production of particular forms of knowledge and specific
research questions (e.g. Eurobarometer, EU framework programmes, cross-national and crossdisciplinary mega-projects, and various kinds of statistics used in benchmarking national
performance) and – on the other hand – that particular theories and political ideologies are
producing particular European practices and institutionalize a particular form of European
integration (the Economic and Monetary Union, financial regulation, free movement of people,
asylum systems, counter-terrorism etc.).
Studying this uncharted relation between social scientific knowledge and European integration, we
build on the new wave in the sociology of knowledge (e.g. Camic, Gross & Lamont (eds.), 2011 &
Jasanoff, 2004) and Pierre Bourdieus’ field theory (Bourdieu, 1996). Combining the two theoretical
traditions the project aims at explaining how social structures, ideas and social scientific knowledge
shape cultural, political and economic institutions and processes in Europe. The new wave of
sociology of science has addressed the relations between states and science, and shown how “…
states … are made of knowledge, just as much as knowledge are made of states” (Jasanoff, 2004;
3). Following Jasanoff’s framework, we study the relations between European integration and the
social sciences science as four different ways of producing social orders: identities, institutions,
discourses and representations. These instruments are addressed at the workshop through a focus
on three major political aspects of the European integration process: economy and production
(session 1), borders and legal orders (session 2) and culture and identities (session 3).
Workshop organisation
At the workshop, the organizers will present a co-authored draft paper that frames the project
theoretically and analytically. This will be followed by presentations by leading scholars from the
disciplines of economy, political science, sociology of law, philosophy of science and sociology of
knowledge.
The first session, ordering economy and production, addresses ideas and practices of economic
integration in the EU. We look at how social scientific knowledge contributes to the design of
economic institutions such as the euro, the internal market, the production of consumers,
discourses on regulation and deregulation, the control of financial markets and representations of
the current economic crisis.
In the second session, political and legal borders and orders, participants focus on the construction
of a common political and legal order. We address how social sciences are involved in and shaped
by processes of labor migration (both legal and illegal), the development of the Schengen system,
production of EU citizen rights and ideas of federalism and constitutionalism in the EU’s acquis
communautaire.
The third and last session addresses the question of how social scientific knowledge relates to the
production of particular European cultures and identities. We deal with questions such as
education, mobility and the idea of a European public sphere.
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Making Europe: The Social Sciences and the Production
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Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-6 February 2013
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Sunday 3 February 2013
Afternoon/evening
Arrival
Monday 4 February 2013
9:15- 09:45
Introduction:
Kristoffer Kropp and Rebecca Adler-Nissen
09:45 -10.00
Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Diego de la Hoz del Hoyo (ESF Science Review Group for the Social Sciences)
Session 1: Ordering economy and production
10:00 -11:00
The Social Sciences and the Economic and Monetary Union
Professor Magnus Ryner, Oxford Brookes University
The European Commission and changing ideas about the internal market
Professor Ben Rosamond, University of Copenhagen
11.00-11:30
Tea and coffee
11:30-12:30
The creation of a European socio-economic classification: limits of expert driven
statistical integration
Dr Jay Rowell, University of Strasbourg
The practitioner’s view: Economics and the making of the Economic Monetary Union
Professor Emeritus Niels Thygesen, University of Copenhagen
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Discussion of session 1 Discussion of session 1 (discussant: Professor Ole Wæver,
University of Copenhagen & associated professor Laura Horn, Roskilde University)
Session 2: Political and legal borders and orders
15:00-15:30
The social construction of EU law
Professor Antoine Vauchez, Sorbonne University
15:30-16:00
Tea and coffee
16:00-16:30
Discussion of session 2 (discussant: Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen, University of
Copenhagen)
16:30-18:00
Get-together, informal social event. Place: Dept. Political Science, University of Copenhagen
19:00
Dinner, Restaurant Orangeriet, Kongens Have, Kronprinsessegade 13, 1306 København K
Tuesday 5 February 2013
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Making Europe: The Social Sciences and the Production
of European Integration
Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-6 February 2013
9:30 -10:30
Enlargement and the circulation of institutional standards
Professor Ole Hammerslev, University of Southern Denmark
Democratic theory and the EU as a political order
Professor Christopher Lord, ARENA Centre for European Studies
10:30-11:00
Discussion of session 2 (discussant: Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen, University of
Copenhagen & Professor Hans-Jörg Trenz, University of Copenhagen) (second part of
session 2)
11:00-11:30
Tea and coffee
Session 3: Cultures and identities
11:30-12:30
The routinization of EU studies: explaining the end of grand theory
Professor Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po, Paris
The technological constitution of Europe?
Professor Andrew Barry, University of Oxford
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
The free movement of people, migration and everyday integration Professor Adrian
Favell, Sciences Po, Paris
What is the nature of the relationship between changes in European higher education
and social science research on higher education and why does it matter Professor
Rosemary Deem, University of London
15:00-15:30
Tea and coffee
15:30 -16:30
Discussion of session 3 (discussant: Head of Department Carsten Strøby Jensen,
University of Copenhagen & Professor Niilo Kauppi, CNRS, Strasbourg)
16:30- 18.00
Concluding remarks and discussion on follow-up activities with Rebecca Adler-Nissen
and Kristoffer Kropp
19:00
Dinner, Restaurant Bibendum, Nansensgade 45, 1366 København K
Wednesday 6 February 2013
Morning
Departure
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Making Europe: The Social Sciences and the Production
of European Integration
Copenhagen (Denmark), 3-6 February 2013
European Science Foundation
Objectives of the ESF Science Review Group
for the Social Sciences
The mission of the ESF Science Review Group for Social Sciences is as follows:
to promote high quality social science research at the European level;
to help support innovative research ideas and approaches emanating from the
scientific community, and
to play a role in strengthening European social science research infrastructure.
ESF Social Sciences Staff:
Nina Kancewicz-Hofman
Rhona Heywood-Roos
Senior Science Officer
Senior Administrator
Diego de la Hoz del Hoyo
Senor Science Officer
Etienne Franchineau
Science Officer
Tel:
+33 (0)3 88 76 71 19
Email: scss_ew@esf.org
Website : under construction
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